Rural chemistry teachers using HPC

Here’s a feel good story for your Friday. Bill Bell from NCSA sent me a pointer over the email transom to this movie about a program at NCSA to designed to increase chemistry literacy among rural teachers by using computational science to give them the understanding and tools they can take back to their schools to improve the quality of student education.

The video is a well made, Bill Moyers style documentary. 6 minutes of your Friday, well spent, and it reminds you why we all thought HPC and scientific computing was so freaking swell in the first place.

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